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Originally Posted by sailingchiro
Time to get some West System products and repair/replace the seam. It doesn't take alot of work to fix but will take some time to match the gel coat or paint color.
As said previously, you will need to repair someone else's mistake when building/using the boat. The seam is coming apart. Maybe someone hit a dock and caused the damage.
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West System products is good stuff.
Poly resin is hollow, enveloped in gel coat and protected from moisture, we don't worry about
osmosis. But when damaged we use West System
epoxy.
Epoxy is a solid resin thus will fill up into the hollow resin at repair and seal the breakage off. Then gel coat will protect that. Epoxy doesn't like UV.
Is worth the extra
price of a poly resin during repair. Because it
seals the fracture properly rather than risk hollow strands that might allow moisture
passage.
Just incase you needed resin understandings and why epoxy about 3 times
price or something like that.
Is toxic, protect yourself because we do breathe.